PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VII)/73-80/10

AUTHOR: Mohammad Aafaq Ganie, Er. Abhishek and Rubel Sharma

TITLE:SOIL INVESTIGATION AND EFFECT OF STONE DUST ON GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF SOIL

ABSTRACT: This projects deals mainly with soil investigation and analyze the effect of stone dust on some geotechnical properties of soil; a) Sequence and extent of each soil and rock stratum in the region likely to be affected by the proposed work; b)Bearing Capacity of the soil. c) The main objective of this study is to examine the change in the index properties of soil when stone dust is mixing with soil In this study stone dust by dry weight of soil was taken as 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% taken and mixed with the soil so as to examine the effect of mixing on OMC, MDD and CBR properties of soil. The objective of this study is to  investigate soil and examine the effect of stone dust on some geotechnical properties of soil and also to determine the probable sub surface condition, assess the various engineering properties of soil .Adding 50% of stone dust is effective in decreasing optimum moisture content of soils which is advantageous in decreasing quantity of water required during compaction. The study also reveals the fact that with increase in the percentage of stone dust MDD of soil increases. Mixing of soils with stone dust is also found to improve its CBR. Adding only 30% of stone dust is found to increase the CBR of soil by nearly 50%.There is a great effect on specific gravity of soils on mixing stone dust with them. Adding 30% stone dust is found to be optimum in case of specific gravity In this research samples of soil were collected only from seven test pits, by increasing the number of sampling area in-depth investigation should be done in future. The dynamic characteristics of soils with relation to respond of soil to earthquake should be studied in future. The Correlation of the index property with shear strength parameters may also be done.

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